On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:21:57PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > David Starner wrote on 2002-11-05 21:49 UTC: > > As a Project Gutenberg volunteer, I've been submitting new texts in > > Unicode, even those in English, to preserve what the author wrote. > > Very sensible indeed! > > > Has anyone else made a 'more modern' English keyboard?
I hope you do not mind a reply from an outsider :-) > > Characters that ought to be added: Don't forget the euro :-) Anyway, why not use AltGr as a second shift to enter those characters? Indeed, here in Slovakia there are more and more keyboards sold with secondary labels on letters, providing brackets and other symbols missing from Slovak layout, and under certain unnamed operating systems those are accessible via AltGr key (those keyboards are however far from widespread). I also wrote a few xkb layouts where I (ab)use the AltGr key to enter a multitude of various exotic characters, see: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/keyboards-rg/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
